I’m with Sir @Glen.Coutts on this one. You hit a lot of great workouts including The Model and 9H.
I second his recommendations. Endurance early.
And lots of intervals are actually good because then you get lots of small breaks.
I did The Trick at #7 for “a rest”. I don’t think that actually worked. The first half was great. But yeah the last 15 minutes were horrific.
I don’t blame you for leaving out Defender, tho it’s one of my personal favs. It’s definitely got a love to hate relationship even with its creator Sir @David.McQuillen.KoS.
Usually the playlist suggestion is to put your favorite motivational rides at #7 and #8 because that’s the official “SUF halfway” point effortwise when most attempts go south. Once you pass #8 and only have 2 to go then it gets mentally easier.
Excellent advice, thank you! HHNF is my favorite video, and I love The trick also, but both of those I already thought about being potential problems. Still had to put them in the list though!
I think I’ll put them 1&2nd.
Thanks very much! I think I’ll need to put the model in at 7 or 8.
I admit I hovered over both defender and attacker in the list. I(think). I like both of those and they’re great videos. But I decided that picking ones that I felt more personally attached to and to this situation would be (hopefully) more motivational. We’ll see if that works!
I love the music in the rookie so am thinking to put it at 9 or ten when I’m likely to chewing stem the entire time and need some good BPM to keep me turning the pedals.EDIT: list order decided. 9 might crack me but it’s worth the risk.
Heeheehee, right?! I knew that if NH anywhere else on the list, psychologically, it just couldn’t go well. But at the end… Well… You’re right.
This is gonna happen!
Thanks all for your stellar support and advice!
Me and Dame Betsy had Revolver as our #10. She did the entire quest on rollers which continues to boggle my mind and leaves me forever in awe of her to-the-core BADASSEDNESS. Her thinking was, she’d treat the 15 intervals like rolling hills. My thinking was, I can count down from 15 to 1 to the end of my Knighthood journey. ISLAGIATT
Oh my goodness! I just did revolver is easy for the first time this morning… I guess, revolver intervals are easier than half is easy intervals, but.at #10 video?, and. On Rollers too?!
Respect!!
Knighthood date is now set as Dec. 24th, start planned for 7:30 CST (1:30 pm UTC)!
The only thing that can put it off now is a total catastrophe - but that will never happen.
Doing final grocery run for fueling foods today as a big snowfall comes into town.
Then only a few more days and the day will be here!
This may seem a silly question but how do people usually “ride with” during this sort of insanity? Ride at the same time? Do I set up a Zoom call? I might not be entirely sure what I’ve got myself into, and that’s fine.
I wouldn’t bother with Zoom. Just do your thing. Post a comment and ideally a SUF face after each ride and folks will chime in if they can with encouragement (and taunting laughter)
To me “ride with” means folks pick one of your vids and just ride it at some point in the day to commiserate in the sufferin’.
I did my knighthood out on my driveway under a gazebo. A few of my local cycling mates came by on their bikes and a lot of my neighbours made on the spot donations, one posted on the local facebook group and that got more of the neighbours to pop down. I put a bucket on the drive with a poster explaining what I was up to and raised quite a bit that way. People look very confused when you say you’re going to be doing this for ten hours.
Some folks are really tech inclined and some not so much. For my quest, I nearly went into radio silence and shut myself in my pain cave away from the world. I did not text and did not respond to texts. And, while I posted a pic of completion on FB after each vid, I did not read, nor respond to ANY comments until I was finished. After a year in the planning, my focus was singular.
Yeh ok, maybe not such a good idea. It was pretty cold, but not that cold. Although if anyone follows GCN they do have the ongoing debate on what’s worse, the bitter cold of Canada or the miserable damp cold of the UK. I spent a winter working in Norway right up North in the artic circle and personally I’d take -20 deg C but dry over the 5 deg dankness we get in the UK, but perhaps wouldn’t go out on the turbo in it.
I prefer a dry cold, for sure, although today is - 30 and we were below-40 last week with the wind chill. Once it’s that low I prefer a damp cold if - 15 or less every time!
You’re right.
